Walter Bishop quotes from Fringe

Walter

I think I know what's happening to you. Every relationship is reciprocal, Peter. When you touch something, it touches you. It changes you. When you touched the machine, it changed you, weaponized you.

Peter

So what do we do now, Walter?

Walter

I don't know.

Walter

It's song lyric. Fauxlivia ruined U2 for all of us.

Nina Sharp

Fauxlivia?

Peter

That's what Walter's calling her now. Fauxlivia; as in fake Olivia.

Walter

Umm... I feel nauseated.

Peter

Yeah, this is pretty disgusting, even by our standards.

Walter

I'm not talking about the body; I fear I may have broken wind inside my suit.

Peter

What's the occasion Walter?

Walter

Nothing special. It has been weeks without any new cases, which has somehow translated into never seeing Olivia, and I, for one, miss her.

Peter

Hey - Cupid!

Walter

Did my plan work?

Peter

Well, if your plan was to make things even more awkward and painful between Olivia and I, yeah, it worked like a charm.

Walter

Perhaps I should have made frittata.

Walter

There's no such thing as ghosts.

Peter

That's where you draw the line? Ghosts?

Peter

What exactly am I looking for here Walter?

Walter

Anything that is related to gravity. I think I remember seeing a file on floaters in there. Of course, it could have been from a period when Belly was in search of the perfect bowel movement.

Astrid

Charming.

Walter

Everybody poops, dear.

Walter

Even if we were able to transfer your consciousness safely inside Gene, there are matters to consider.

William Bell

We would communicate through my brain waves. You'd hook me up to an EEG machine and decipher my thoughts.

Walter

It could work. But still, I'd have to milk you.

William Bell

Well, we could assign Astrid.

Walter

Astro, are we ready?

Astrid

Just about, Wally.

Olivia

Walter, what if I can't do it? What if I can't turn it off?

Walter

I have known you for a long time, Olivia, and I believe that the drawing was no accident. Whoever did it knew the same as I do: that you don't fail.

Walter

This time you have to make different choice. And if something goes wrong, Olivia would be available to...

Peter

Walter; Stop [hold back his tears] Olivia is dead.

Walter

But she won't be. Not there.

Peter

The machine? I turned that on 15 years ago.

Walter

And all the time I sat in prison, I couldn't figure out where it came from. I knew the pieces were buried millions of years ago, but how did they get there? So deep in the past. But now I understand. I sent them there. The hole in central park. I sent them back through time. Peter, you can stop the destruction before it occurs.

Peter

If that's the case, just don't send the machine back. They will never discover it and I'll never destroy the other universe.

Walter

No no no. Dosen't work that way. I have already done it. And I have no choice but to do it again.

Peter

Walter that doesn't make any sense.

Walter

It does. It is a paradox. I can't change what happens because it's already happened. But you can make a different choice within what happened. I simply need to find a way to bring your consciousness forward to now, so that you can witness what will happen if you make the same choice. Peter, for all I know, it can be happening already. Don't you see, we can fix everything. We can cheat the rules of time.

Peter

Imagine the repercussions.

Walter

It can't be worst than this. It can't be worst than this.

Lincoln

You're not returning these people to their families?

Olivia

We can't do that.

Lincoln

Why not?

Olivia

Because we can't disclose how they were killed. The families are informed that they have gone missing and we will continue to look for them --

Lincoln

You lie to them.

Olivia

Look, I'm sorry, but --

Lincoln

You understand what you're saying? Those families are going to spend the rest of their lives wondering what happened to their loved ones. Looking for answers. Can you imagine what that would be like? To have that -- that hole in your life.

Walter

People die. It happens. Sometimes they even die twice.

Walter

Belly always theorized that the cortexiphan children would share a psychic link; a deep emotional bond because of their shared experience. Maybe this person is trying to reach out to you and the harmful side effects are unintentional.

Olivia

Why me and why now?

Walter

I can't answer that, but I can say that some of the children didn't handle the treatments as well as you did. Some had adverse reactions emotionally. You were always the strongest. The others recognized that. You were always their favorite.

Olivia

[bandaging Walter's hand] I'm sorry. Does that hurt?

Walter

Not as deeply as my pride. Mysophobia. I haven't had an attack in years.

Olivia

It's curious, don't you think? The things that we see, that we investigate, and you don't bat an eye. Some harmless germs make you shake in your boots.

Walter

I suppose it is. Elizabeth, my wife, used to say I was a man of contradictions. She liked that about me. I liked everything about her. She committed suicide, did you know? After our Peter died. I'm glad she never knew me like this. I'm afraid of things I can't even see.

Olivia

Walter, I don't think I'm going to get much sleep tonight, either. What do you say to a rootbeer float?

Olivia

Walter, do you think we destroyed it? Do you think it's gone?

Walter

I can't be sure, Olivia. What you did may have compromised Cameron's ability. He may have just displaced it. You acted against all reasonable agreements and expectations. You behaved irrationally with regard to only your intuition and instincts.

Olivia

I guess I did.

Walter

When I do that people say I'm crazy. I suppose I've learned that crazy's a lot more complicated than people think.